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Rythmical Sayings.
in force in the greater part of England , that such lines as the following in their very reality must have had , ancl which Knighton , in his Chronicles , preserves for us . John Ball greoteth yon all , And doth for to understand , He hath rung your bell , Now right and might , And will and skill , God speed every dell * .
Here is another—Help truth , and truth shall help you Now reigneth pride in price , And covefcysef is counted nice , And lechery wifchouten shame , And gluttony withouten blame , God do bote j for now is tyme .
Let us take a third specimen—Jack Miller asketh help To turn his mill aright . He hath gronnden small , The king ' s son of heaven he shall pay for all , With might and with right , With skill and with will ;
Let might help right , And still before will , And right before might , So goath his mill aright .
And once more—Falseness and guile have reigned too long , And truth hath been set under a look , And falseness and guile reigneth in every stock . No man may come Truth to , But if he sings " si dedero , " § True love is away that was so good , And clerks for wealth work them woe , God do bote , for now is tyme .
In the rude jingle of these quaint , and , probably , most effective words , we note the germ of many a popular saw , and which is still preserved in some form or another in adagial or proverbial literature . Archbishop Trench , in his essay on proverbs , gives us several rhyming proverbs , and it mi ght form a very interesting paper , " per se , " if we could collect the rythmical proverbs of different nations . But on the present occasion we propose rather to fill up our pages with those local sayings or " topographical verses" which
linger in the retentive memories of the English people , or may be found in these "collections , " which ingenious archaeologists have made of similar vehicular remains . A great number have been sent to Notes aiid Queries , and other works , and are repeated still in their own localities , and we think deserve to find a place in the pages of the Masonic Magazine , always necessarily favourable to antiquarian research and archaeological memories . For instancelet us
, take the counties in England seriatim and al phabetically , and we shall find more local rhymes than preserved belonging to almost all of them , probably to all , as the list of such rhymes may be increased , we fancy , to almost any extent by local antiquaries .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Rythmical Sayings.
in force in the greater part of England , that such lines as the following in their very reality must have had , ancl which Knighton , in his Chronicles , preserves for us . John Ball greoteth yon all , And doth for to understand , He hath rung your bell , Now right and might , And will and skill , God speed every dell * .
Here is another—Help truth , and truth shall help you Now reigneth pride in price , And covefcysef is counted nice , And lechery wifchouten shame , And gluttony withouten blame , God do bote j for now is tyme .
Let us take a third specimen—Jack Miller asketh help To turn his mill aright . He hath gronnden small , The king ' s son of heaven he shall pay for all , With might and with right , With skill and with will ;
Let might help right , And still before will , And right before might , So goath his mill aright .
And once more—Falseness and guile have reigned too long , And truth hath been set under a look , And falseness and guile reigneth in every stock . No man may come Truth to , But if he sings " si dedero , " § True love is away that was so good , And clerks for wealth work them woe , God do bote , for now is tyme .
In the rude jingle of these quaint , and , probably , most effective words , we note the germ of many a popular saw , and which is still preserved in some form or another in adagial or proverbial literature . Archbishop Trench , in his essay on proverbs , gives us several rhyming proverbs , and it mi ght form a very interesting paper , " per se , " if we could collect the rythmical proverbs of different nations . But on the present occasion we propose rather to fill up our pages with those local sayings or " topographical verses" which
linger in the retentive memories of the English people , or may be found in these "collections , " which ingenious archaeologists have made of similar vehicular remains . A great number have been sent to Notes aiid Queries , and other works , and are repeated still in their own localities , and we think deserve to find a place in the pages of the Masonic Magazine , always necessarily favourable to antiquarian research and archaeological memories . For instancelet us
, take the counties in England seriatim and al phabetically , and we shall find more local rhymes than preserved belonging to almost all of them , probably to all , as the list of such rhymes may be increased , we fancy , to almost any extent by local antiquaries .